Costs of Crime and Criminal Justice Responses: A Data Compilation and Integration Exercise

This cancels and supersedes previous solicitation number 201400501 dated July 17, 2013 which was due at 14:00 p.m. on August 27, 2013.


1. 	Requirement Summary

The purpose of this study is to conduct a comprehensive literature review of international studies on the costs of crime and criminal justice responses, then compile and integrate the results to establish an empirical range of the estimates of the costs of various types of crime and criminal justice responses, paying particular attention to the methodologies used to arrive at the estimates. Variables of interest will be captured in a SPSS datafile on costs of crime and criminal justice responses, and used to perform a comparative analysis of international cost estimates. This work is expected to inform the future development of methodologies to estimate Canadian-specific costs of a variety of crimes and criminal justice processes. In addition, establishing these standards will allow Canadian researchers to assess how well their estimates fit within the international literature. It will also provide a reliable guide to the most up-to-date set of estimates on crime and criminal justice responses.


2	DELIVERABLES 

The Contractor must: 

5.1	Finalize the development of the standardized coding form and coding guide that captures variables of interest.

5.2	Produce an SPSS datafile of cost studies that were reviewed, with information on costs of the various types of crime and/or criminal justice processes. This must be submitted no later than February 28, 2014. This date is inflexible and the deliverable must be produced by no later than this date.

5.3	Provide a synthesis of the literature results that will be used to create the draft and final report in electronic and hard copy by June 1, 2014. 

5.4	Submit a draft and final report based on the synthesis of the literature review. 

The SPSS datafile of cost studies will be submitted to the Project Authority no later than February 28, 2014. A draft of the final report will be submitted to the Project Authority no later April 15, 2014 for comments and feedback.  The final report shall incorporate the recommendations/feedback received from the Project Authority and shall be submitted by June 1, 2014 to the Project Authority for approval before being considered final


3.	Period of Work

The period of the Contract is from date of contract award to August 31, 2014.


4.	Evaluation Process and Selection Methodology

Basis of selection – Highest combined score of technical points (60%) and financial points (40%). Detailed in the RFP


5.	Contracting Authority

Rachel Hull
Contracting and Procurement Section
Public Safety Canada
340 Laurier Avenue West, 1st Floor Mailroom
Ottawa ON  K1A 0P9

Tel:  613-949-1048
Fax: 613-954-1871

The Contracting Authority is responsible for all matters of a contractual nature. 


6.	Enquiries - solicitation stage

All enquiries or issues concerning this procurement must be submitted in writing to the Contracting Authority named in Part 1, item 5 as early as possible within the bidding period.

Enquiries and issues must be received by the Contracting Authority no later than five (5) business days prior to the bid closing date specified on the cover page or this RFP document to allow sufficient time to provide a response.  Enquiries or issues received after that time may not be able to be answered prior to the bid closing date.  To ensure consistency and quality of information provided to Bidders, the Contracting Authority will provide, simultaneously to all bidders to which this solicitation has been sent, any information with respect to significant enquiries received and the replies to such enquiries without revealing the sources of the enquiries.

It is the responsibility of the Bidder to obtain clarification of the requirements contained herein, if necessary, prior to submitting a bid.

A request for a time extension to the bid closing date will be considered provided it is received in writing by the PS Contracting Authority at least five (5) working days before the closing date shown on page 1 of this RFP document. The request, if granted, will be communicated by www.BuyandSell.gc.ca at least two (2) working days before the closing, showing the revised closing date.  The request, if rejected, will be directed to the originator at least three (3) working days before the closing date by the PS Contracting Authority.


6	Intellectual Property

Public Safety Canada has determined that any intellectual property rights arising from the performance of the Work under the resulting contract will belong to Canada, on the following grounds: 

The main purpose of the contract, or of the deliverables contracted for, is to generate knowledge and information for public dissemination

Although Public Safety Canada will retain all intellectual property rights arising from the performance of the work under any resulting contract, Public Safety will, at the request for the Contractor, grant a no-fee end-use restricted license.


7.	Security 

There is no security requirement identified.